Zechariah 1:14b:Thus
says the Lord of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and forZion with a great
jealousy.

Jerusalem is a sealed city in a sealed Zion.God gave Zechariah significant spiritual
truths related to the past and future of Jerusalem.Eight night visions came to Zechariah on the
8th month, 519 B.C., one for each day of the Feast of Tabernacles.

I attended a
conference at In His Presence
Church on Friday night
and Saturday morning.The guest minister
is Pastor Steve Cioccolanti from Australia.He quickened to my Spirit the Book of Zechariah.He ministered on the flying scroll.

Zech 5: 1-4: Then I turned, and lifted up my eyes, and
looked and behold a flying scroll.He
saidto me. What do you see?I answered, I see a flying scroll; the length
thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.Then he said to me, this
isthe curse that goes forth over the face of
the whole earth; for every one that steals shall be cut off as on that side
according to it.I will bring it forth,
says the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and the
house of him that swears falsely by my name; and it shall remain in the midst
of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones
thereof.

The Hebrew word for scroll is magillah.The magillah is an oval container in which a
rolled scroll is stored. The magillah
size would be equal to 20 ft. x 10 ft.Pastor Steve then showed us a photo of an SS-1Scud missile, which is in
the shape of a magillah.

During the teaching
my ears were alert that he thought those prophecies which have been sealed are
now being unsealed.He did not expound
on that subject, but my Spirit was quickened.

C. R. Oliver:“What happens in Jerusalem affects the whole world.The flying scroll illustrates a sealed
destiny on those who seek to steal the spiritual truths of God and those who
wrongfully swear by Him and are not from Him.Both groups will find themselves destroyed by the sealed scroll that
covers the whole earth.”

Christian you carry
the authority to appropriate the power of the Cross by Faith and the Holy
Spirit to break every curse.

The first vision in
Chapter 1: 8-12 pictures a man riding a red horse and standing among the myrtle
trees.The man is Yehovah (The Angel of the Lord). Myrtle trees were used to build the booths of
the Feast of Tabernacles.The messages
of this book are based on Tabernacle Truths.

Zechariah’s
prophecies illumine the message of Haggai, who was used to mobilize a people to
rebuild the Temple
by showing they were the chosen of God for the task.Listeners to Zechariah’s words would
understand their efforts were just a part of the seal on Jerusalem.They would be part of the sum for the seal of Jerusalem.

In no way could their
efforts be equated to the Last Days Jerusalem,
which would house the Temple
coming down from God.Just as Solomon’s Temple and Jerusalem fell
to ruins, so their efforts would fail in history, but ultimately God would
bring a New Jerusalem and a New
Temple and culminate the
seal of the city.

“Carolyn teach New Jerusalem as purity.”New Jerusalem is a spiritual temple and
the 9th temple of the Bible.

8th Temple: “Know you
not that you are the temple
of God and the Spirit of
God dwells in you.” (1 Cor. 3:16).“For you are the temple of the living God; as
God said, I will dwell in them and walk in them; and I will be their God and
they shall be my people.”

9th Temple: “For we know if our earthly house of this
tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens.” (2 Cor.5:1)

Zerubbabel’s temple
was the 5th temple.The
efforts of God’s people in carrying out the rebuilding of the Temple and the city itself would be rewarded
by the Messiah bringing his glory into it.Jerusalem
would not fade into oblivion; it would emerge victorious above all other
landmarks in the world.Just as the
Feast of Tabernacles then and now lies outside the brick and mortar realm, so
the future of Jerusalem
is outside brick and mortar efforts.

Weaving between the
rebuilding efforts of 520 BC, and the future glory of the Messiah’s Temple in the sealed City, Zechariah’s words presented a
monumental portrayal about the importance of untold generations as they
interact with Jerusalem.Those who curse it, or cause it difficulty,
will meet the judgment of God.Those who
bless it, and seek to do the will of God in it, will find prosperity and have
the seal of God’s blessing.

Every aspect of the
sealed city was explored by the Lord in His interaction with the prophet.The Temple
within it, the people who would occupy it, and the nations which surround it
are affected by the seal on it.God
himself will always intervene and do so until the seal is perfected.

Zech 1:17:My cities shall again spread out through prosperity; the Lord
will again comfort Zion and will again choose Jerusalem.

In 2017, all who visit Zion will
see the fulfillment of this prophecy of prosperity over Israel.

Not one inch of its territory will be sacrificed in the
fullness of time, as evidenced by the surveyor’s line and the measuring stick,
nor will any infringement be tolerated.

This is the law of the temple:All the surrounding area on top of the mountain will be most holy.Such is the law of the temple.”(Ezekiel 43:
10-12)

Zech 14:21:In that day there shall no longer be a Canaanite in the
house of the Lordof hosts.

The Canaanite spirit
is all unclean sex spirits.The Lord
will separate out of His Church all who will not repent of their unclean sexual
spirits.

Oppressors will
arise, but they will meet competent craftsmen.

Zech. 1:18-21:Then I
lifted up my eyes, and saw, behold four horns.I said to the angel that talked with me, what are these?He answered me.These are the hornswhich have scattered Judah,
Israel, and Jerusalem.Then the Lord showed me four carpenters.Then said I,
What have these come to do” He spoke,
saying, These are the horns which have scattered
Judah, so that no man did lift up his head, but these are come to frighten
them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over
the land of Judah to scatter it.

The four horns (rulers/military power) did attack Jerusalem (The
Babylonian, Media-Persia, Greek and Roman Empires).The prophet said the craftsmen would cut the four horns and they have. (Nearly every
Western nation is an affiliate of the fourth horn {Roman
Empire}.This horn and
those associated with it have affected almost all the known world, thus any
word against the fourth horn was understood to pertain to most of the Gentile
world.)

Israel is God’s stage
where he plays out all He is doing in the earth.What happens in Jerusalem affects the whole world.

Zech 5:6: The angel
that talked with me went forth, and said to me.Lift
up your eyes, and see what is this that goes forth?I said, what
is it?He said, this is an ephah
(basket) that goes forth.He said, moreover, this is
their resemblance through all the earth.There was lifted up a talent of lead.This is the woman that sits in the midst of the ephah.This is wickedness.He cast it into the midst of the basket; and
he cast the weight of lead (sealed) upon the
mouth.Then
I lifted up my eyes; and looked.Behold there
came two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings; like the
wings of a stork; and they lifted up the basket between the earth and the
heaven.Iasked the angel, where are they taking the
basket?He said, to build it a house
in the land of Shinar; and it shall be established, and
set there upon her own base.

C. R. Oliver:“Wickedness, personified in the woman and her
sealed basket relates to false religions, more especially Islam.The package was supernaturally taken out of Jerusalem and ferried to Babylon
(modern Iraq)
where the totality was planted and based.”

This has not yet been
fulfilled because Islam and other false religions still occupy Israel and Jerusalem.

Ultimately, the Lord
will reveal the seal on Jerusalem to the world
and take possession of that Holy
City.

Zech. 2:5:“I will
be a wall of fire all around her, and I will be the glory in hermidst.

Those who come to His
city will either be provided for and protected or destroyed.(Hence, the admonition to those remaining in
ancient Babylon
to leave that land and get under the seal of the Blood of Jesus Christ.)

Zech 2: 11-12:Many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day and they
shall become My people.I will dwell in
your midst…the Lord will take possession of Judah
as his inheritance in the Holy Land, and will again choose Jerusalem.

The 520 B.C. (5th
Temple) as a building was different than the temple of Solomon
(4th. Temple). Even though the aged returnees wept at the
discrepancy between the two, God showed them a new day had dawned.Their building would have its own unique
glory as the Messiah came and glorified it.

The train of history
had to move forward to the time when that which was tainted, compromised and
stained, through iniquity, would pass away to make room for the New Jerusalem,
the City of God and the New Temple, The Body of Christ.

To show the
discrepancy between the 520 B.C. Jerusalem and
the future Jerusalem,
Zechariah portrayed the investiture and ultimate crowning of Joshua, the high
priest.The 520 B.C. temple was a
continuation of the old covenant.The New Temple
would not be.First, Joshua, the priest
representing the “520 bunch,” had to be cleansed and changed.Jesus, the High Priest of the true Temple which replaced
theirs was indeed a “wondrous sign”.

Zech 3:8: Hear now, O Joshua
the high priest, you and your fellows that sit before you for they are men
wondered at for, behold I will bring forth My servant the BRANCH.

Jesus would not wear the tainted garments of the previous
priesthood.His priesthood was Holy and
without sin.The 520 Joshua clearly
views the engraved stone of seven eyes, which is the Branch (the greater High
Priest).With Him all the iniquity of
the land would be removed in a day.After Him, there would be no need of the original priesthood.His was perfect.Similarly the glorious High Priest was
invested with a crown, making him the first true King-Priest, an unheard of
office in 520 B.C.

Zech 6: 12-13:Behold the Man whose
name is the BRANCH!He shall sit and
rule on His throne; so He shall be priest on His throne, and the counsel of
peace shall be between them both.

The sealed King-Priest is reigning in both positions.He is raising up a company of King-Priests
who will rule with Him. When this
company is prepared, the finality of the seal on Jerusalem
and the Temple
will be perfected.This scene connects
with the two anointed ones who supplied the oil for the spiritual lamp stand in
the Holy Temple.C. R. Oliver’s view of these two anointed ones is Jesus and the Holy
Spirit, who both had not arrived on earth at the time of Zechariah.

Additional seals began to manifest themselves in symbolic
form in Zechariah’s prophecy.The sealed
history of Jerusalem
continued to be projected.Zerubbabel,
post-Babylon’s engineer, stood symbolic of the great Zerubbabel (the Messiah)
whose plumb line would set Jerusalem’s
recovery after the “time of the Gentiles.”

The people began to question Zechariah about their
traditions.When viewed in the light of
the glorious future of Jerusalem and the New Temple,
their traditions seem like fables.

They questioned Zechariah about executing an upcoming
memorial celebration.

Zech 7:3, 5-6:Should
I weep in the fifth month and fast as I have done for so many years?...Before
Zechariah could field the question, God answered tersely, Did youreally fast for Me… or for yourselves?

Many of us fast for vanity.Knowing that most of the traditions of organized religion satisfy some
other requirement than ministering to God, the question must be asked to every
generation, not just the 520 crowd.

Israel’s disregard for
God’s word during the time of their former prosperity led them to incorporate
idolatry into their religious structure.

This repeated idolatry would ultimately cause their
downfall again as they rejected the Messiah and once more felt the wrath of
God.They would be scattered.

7:14:It is to come to
pass, that as He cried, they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not
hear, says the Lord of hosts I scattered them with a whirlwind among all thenations whom they knew not…

They would hear the sound of the wailing shepherd 11:3;
11:13:Weighed out for my wages thirty pieces of
silver and the Lord said to me, Throw it to the potter…

Zech: 9:9: Behold your King is coming to you; He is just and having
salvation, lowly and riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey.

(So it will be at the end, when the Last Days are upon the
world and the time has come for Messiah to usher in His day, the prophet
Zechariah will have been set aside for a long time---but the seal of Jerusalem will not have
been set aside.)

Current society has pictured the modern state of Israel as the
repository of all end-time prophecy, which shows ignorance of Zechariah’s work.

The Seal is upon Jerusalem
and all things radiate from that face.

Zechariah wrote about the 520 Bunch:

8:13: I will save you, and you shall be a blessing.

8: 14-15: Just
as I promised to punish you when your fathers provoked Me to wrath, says the
Lord of hosts, And I would not relent, So again these days I am determined to
do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.

To the End Time Bunch:

8:22:Many peoples and
strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord.

10:3:For the Lord of
hosts will visit his flock, the house of Judah.

The nations who will come against the Seal and the Sealer
will discover they have hit God’s time seal.

14:7:It shall be one day
which is known to the Lord.

14:3:Then the Lord will go forth and fight
against those nations.

14:5c: The Lord shall
come and all the saints with thee.

The Seal on Jerusalem
will be perfected and its people will be sealed with it.

8:3: Jerusalem shall be called the
City of Truth, the Mountain of the Lord of
Hosts, the Holy Mountain.

14:20-21:In that
day, HOLINESS TO THE LORD shall be engraved on the bells of the horses…Yes,
every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holiness to the Lord
of hosts.

Holiness perfects the seal.Only those who are righteous will partake of the Kingdom of God.

Scripture from K.J.V. – quote from Steve Cioccolanti;
I entered into the labors of C. R. Oliver, Sealed Unto His Coming.Comments and conclusions are my own and not
meant to reflect the views of Pastor Cioccolanti or C. R. Oliver.